WWildlife Read More ‘Code brown’: Aussies’ hilarious interview after shark sightingAugust 23, 2026 A colourful interview with two young boaties about a recent shark sighting left presenters in stitches on Sunday…
WWildlife Read More It has a rather grotesque face, electric organs, venomous spines and can swallow prey whole thanks to its huge mouth, which can suck them right inAugust 23, 2026 Stargazers are a group of around 50 different fish species, each one as odd as the next. These…
WWildlife Read More A tiny owl flew 70 miles out to sea and collapsed on a yacht, exhausted and too weak to fly, she found an unlikely group of rescuers who refused to leave her behindAugust 23, 2026 Sergeant Mark Petherbridge (L) and Captain Tom Court (R) with rescued barn owl, Little Regina, aboard Fujitsu British…
WWildlife Read More In 1987, Fort Peck tribes returned over 100 bison to 5,800 acres; decades later they stopped hunting their own herd to restore the original cultural purpose | World NewsAugust 23, 2026 Representative Image of the Fort Peck buffalo herd grazing across a vast 33,000-acre prairie (AI-generated image) In 1987,…
WWildlife Read More Biologists who necropsied 75 bats found dead under wind turbines in southern Alberta counted 32 with visible injuries and 69 with blood pooled in their chests, because the pressure drop behind a passing blade bursts a bat’s lungs without the blade ever touching itAugust 23, 2026 The mystery that sent biologists crawling under the wind turbines of southern Alberta was a simple contradiction: dead…
WWildlife Read More In 2021, National Geographic reported that Sydney cockatoos can pry open garbage bins; by the end of 2019, the learned trick had spread across 44 suburbs | World NewsAugust 23, 2026 Cockatoo in Sydney. Image credits: Wikimedia Commons News from Sydney about cockatoos that learned to open garbage bins…
WWildlife Read More A South African couple combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve, restored the land and brought cheetahs back to the Great Karoo after 130 yearsAugust 23, 2026 Samara reintroduced wild cheetahs to the Great Karoo in 2004 after 130 years. (Picture: Samara) In 1997, couple…
WWildlife Read More This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to ageAugust 23, 2026 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
WWildlife Read More Hawaii once considered releasing cats to kill invasive rats on an island; scientists rejected the idea because the cats would attack native birds too | World NewsAugust 23, 2026 Image: Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Department of Land and Natural Resources Lehua Island, a 284-acre seabird sanctuary…
WWildlife Read More In 1997, scientists sent cameras down with sperm whales to find the monster hidden in their scars: the giant squid. The footage they wanted never came, but the failed hunt helped point science toward one of the deep ocean’s most elusive animalsAugust 23, 2026 Sperm whales come up from the deep wearing evidence. Rings of pale scar tissue across the head and…
WWildlife Read More This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to ageAugust 23, 2026 Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer…
WWildlife Read More Australia’s first bird flu case in a mammal confirmed in South AustraliaAugust 23, 2026 Australia’s first case of bird flu in a mammal has been confirmed, after testing of a long-nosed fur…